My thanks to OnTabletop for recording this seminar, since we weren’t organised enough to do it ourselves. I spent my Saturday editing this, and my Sunday making sure it was properly subtitled. Don’t expect to see Meeple Like Us pivoting to video any time soon as a result. It takes SO…
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Mrs Meeple’s UKGE 2018 Diary
After last year’s UKGE, I wasn’t convinced that I wanted to attend UKGE 2018. It’s a pretty exhausting experience, and I didn’t find our visit last year to be particularly productive. I also have a real job where I can’t just swan down to Birmingham and call it ‘work’. I…
Michael’s UKGE 2018 Diary
One of the most striking images I saw during the UK Games Expo 2018 was the procession of cosplayers making their way into the centre on the Saturday. The dedication that goes into cosplay is genuinely impressive. I watched pass before me a parade of Harley Quinns and Jokers, Imperial…
Meeple Like Us Discord Boardgamegeek Bot
You might be aware of our Wordpress Plugin – it’s been gradually sinking itself deeper into the internals of this site over the past month or so. It’s so deep now that doctors are afraid that the site would die if we removed it. Well, since I wrote up…
Eighteen Months of Meeple Like Us: An Exploration into the State of Board Game Accessibility
As many of you know, I’m a university lecturer. One of the things that I have to do as part of that is publish papers in academic journals. It’s been hard to find an appropriate publication outlet for work on board-game accessibility – it doesn’t fit anywhere especially neatly. Well,…
Meeple Centred Design: A Heuristic Toolkit for Evaluating the Accessibility of Tabletop Games
As many of you know, I’m a university lecturer. One of the things that I have to do as part of that is publish papers in academic journals. It’s been hard to find an appropriate publication outlet for work on board-game accessibility – it doesn’t fit anywhere especially neatly. Well,…
The Terrible Twos – The Second Anniversary of Meeple Like Us
Oh my God. Two years. It’s really been two years since we started Meeple Like Us and it feels like something might have gone wrong with the space-time continuum. It can’t be that long, surely? And here you are, reading our anniversary post – whether this is your first…
The Meeple Like Us Boardgamegeek Plugin
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook will already be aware that I’ve been writing a WordPress plugin. Well, it’s reached the stage that I’m about as happy as I can be with it for the short term. I’ve had it installed on every review and teardown…
We’re doing a board game accessibility seminar at UKGE 2018!
Some of you may recall our coverage of UKGE 2017 which began on a negative note and became considerably more cheerful as time went by. Well, gluttons for punishment that we are – we’re going to be back at the UKGE for 2018 and we’re going ALL IN. Or rather,…
A New Game Journalism Reader
My post on the New Boardgame Journalism seemed to cause a bit of a stir, both for and against. That’s great. I think this is a conversation that boardgame media needs to have if it’s not going to end up rendered entirely obsolete by the gradual encroachment of professional media…
The Sinister Bottom Quiz
Welcome to your Sinister Bottom!
I have stolen this idea outright from the excellent Bitsocket podcast, and I would recommend you check them out because they are Super Good.
The idea here is that we take well known board-games (defined here as being in the Top 1000 of Boardgamegeek) and run them…
You are Not Alone – Pragmatic and Philosophical Tips for Content Creation
Last night, a topic came up on Twitter about which I felt compelled to write up a short (for me) thread – the issue of managing time and stress and expectation when you’re working as a content creator (urgh – I hate that term but there really is nothing else…
Teaching with Boardgames – Cardboard Prototyping
One of the modules I teach is called User Centred Design, or UCD. It’s a third-year unit aimed primarily at our Digital Media students. If you’ve never encountered this philosophy of development before it’s about making sure that every stage through which a project passes has a heavy, integral focus…
The Meeple Like Us Top Ten Best Board Games, 2017 Edition!
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Oh my good golly gosh, 2017 is finally coming to an end. Remember how in 2016 we just wondered what celebrity was going to die next? Now we wonder which one will be outed as a sexual predator sufficiently vile as to taint their entire body of work. What new…
The Glasgow Games Festival 2017
Mrs Meeple and I had the opportunity to attend the Glasgow Games Festival last weekend. This is an event of open gaming held in the convivial surroundings of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. For both of us, this was the first time we’d attended a gaming convention since the mixed-bag…
The Thoughtful Gamer Podcast
Hello everyone! Just a quick post here to say that I talked to Marc Davis of the Thoughtful Gamer podcast a couple of days ago, and little did I know he was recording it and planning to put it online! I haven’t listened to this yet, so I’m not 100%…
The View from the Vice Presidency – A Watch the Skies Dundee After Action Report
This is the second After Action Report from Watch the Skies Dundee II. This is from Debbie Thain, who had served with distinction as Secretary of State in the first game, and stepped up to Vice President and Director of Homeland Security for this one. Following the speedy impeachment of…
Watch the Skies II – Trust No One
This is an after action report written with the assistance of the highest officials in the United States. Namely: Carrie Morris, head of science and thinkology Michael Crabb, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Unhinged Military Psychopath Mike Ritchie, Secretary of State for Wrangling the UN Debbie Thain,…
Tabletop Gaming Magazine
Just a quick post today. I would like to point y’all in the direction of Tabletop Gaming Magazine, where we just had an article on accessibility in board gaming published. You can find it here. Matt Jarvis, the editor there, was very welcoming with regards to discussing issues of accessibility…
Mrs Meeple’s UKGE Diary! Part Two
Mr Meeple said I came across as ‘enthusiastic and a little bewildered’ in my previous post. Really then it’s obvious I wrote the post with an authentic voice that demonstrates how I sometimes come across in real life.
I awoke around 5:30am on Saturday. That was thanks to the…